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(No Model.)

' 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. WW. SAWYER & J. HUGOULD.

HAND STAMP.

Patpnte Dec. 30, 1884.

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W. W. SAWYER. & J. H. GOULD.

HAND STAMP.

No. 309,883. I 'Pa.tented Dec. 30, 18.84.

ITNESSES ATTORNEY 5 squared portion is fitted the wheel 7;.

UNTTE STATES \VILLARD \V. SAX VYER AND JOHN H. GOULD, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASS, SAID GOULD ASSIGNOR TO \VILLTAM A. FORCE, OF BROOKLYN, Y.

HAND- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 309,883, dated December 30, 1884.

Application filed December Ill, 1893. (No model.)

Z?) all whom it may concern Be it known that we, WILLARD W. SAW- YER and JOHN H. GOULD, citizens of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the 5 county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hand-Stamps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in to that class of hand-stamps which are provided with rotating month, year, and day (late wheels, and a stamp-ribbon for inking the lattor, and other stamp characters, the object being to provide improved means for supporti 5 ing and operating the year and date wheels,

and to improve the construction and relative arrangement of the stamp-head and pad-case.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective View, partly 20 in section, of-a hand-stamp embodying our which is cast in halves, and the latter are secured together by the transverse screws at 4.

0 By casting the frame in two parts, as aforesaid, the wheel-cavity in it is easily formed and finished before the parts are put together, and thereby provision ismade for making the wheel-bearings i on opposite sides of the 3 5 wheel-cavity integral with the frame itself, and

for easily rounding and finishing them to receive the month and year wheels, which rotate on them.

A shaft, 8', is hung in the frame, and is ar- 0 ranged to be rotated by taking hold of the button 0. That part of the shaft 3 which passes through the frame and the wheel-bearings is round, but that portion of it between said bearings is squared, and onto said Acornbined stop and indicator wheel, y, is fixed on the shaft 8 so that it must turn with the latter, and the outside of the frame has a socket in it to receive the wheel y, the outer face of 0 the latter being about on a line with the side ofthe frame, and having a series of figures thereon, as shown in Fig. 1. The relative positions of the day-date wheel It and the indicator-wheel y on shaft are such that when the shaft and indicator-wheel are turned, bringing some number on wheel 51 around to the mark z by the side of said wheel, a like figure or number will be brought uppermost on the date-wheel is under the pad-case it. Thus, by turning the shaft 8 the wheels is and y are rotated, while the wheels to and w" on either side of wheel 7.: rest immovablyontheir bearings.

A spring stop-pin, o, is placed in frame D opposite the periphery of the wheel 7 the point of which enters indentations w in the latter, to stop the wheelin the right posit-ion when turned to bring a new date upward.

The ordinary stamp-plate c is secured to the frame, and the peripheries of the wheels w, k, and a appear through a central opening in it in the usual manner, as seen in Fig. 1.

Stop-pins 0", Fig. 3, similar to said stop-pin 0, are placed in the bearings t z, and are, by suitable springs, made to engage with indentations in the wheels w w, to arrest them when they are turned to change the year or month figures or letters on their peripheries.

The inking-ribbon'J is wound on the shaft 111, at the front end of the stamp, on which is a disk, m, by which it is turned. A frictionspring, 1'', is placed between the disk m and the side of the panel E, to prevent shaft m from turning too freely. The inking-ribbon is carried from shaft an) up over the stamp plate 0, and thence downward and around a shaft, 8, 011 the outer end of which is fixed a ratchet-wheel, m. A pawl, n is pivoted to the lever B, and engages with said ratchetwheel, so that each upward movement of the lever causes the shaft 8 to be turned and the ribbon J to be drawn more or less over the face of the stamp-plate 0. Turning the shaft m by disk W draws the ribbon-back, rewinding .it onto the last-named shaft. A stopfingcr, a, is pivoted on the side of frame D, and has a hooked end, which engages with a tooth of wheel at as the latter is turned, and prevents it from turning back during the movement of pawl a" away from the ratchet-wheel.

It will be observed that the shaftnfis hung in the lower part of the panel E, which is pivoted on the front end of the frame D. Said panel is opened, as in Fig. 2, to adjust and to change the inking-ribbon, and when it is shut, as inFig. 1, the shaft on is moved downward, putting a slight tension on the ribbon. A spring, 3, bears against the lower end of the 'panel, whereby the latter is held open, and

when closed is made to shut tight against the frame and protect the ribbon from the dirt and dust.

The lever B is pivoted on the frame in the usual manner, a spring, a, serving to hold it in an elevated position.

The stamp-head c is constructed and attached to the end of the lever B, and the padcase is arranged in a socket in the latter and secured thereto, as shown in Fig. 7-that is to say, the lever is provided with a socket, h, over the stamp-plate e, in which is fitted the pad A, and the latter is secured in said socket by the screw 0". The head 0 screws into the upper side of the lever, as shown, and is there further secured by a pin, 5. The head 0 is re-' moved when the pad A is changed.

WVhen it is desired to turn the month or year wheel to change the date, the hand isapplied directly to the edge of the-wheel under the frame. The day-(late wheel is turned by the button 1; and shaft .9", as above described.

WVhat we claim as our invention is 1.- In a handstamp, the combination of a frame, D, formed of two halves bolted together and having a date-wheel cavity therein, the opposite interior sides of which are provided with two circular wheel-bearings, i i, one in either half of the frame, and integral with it, a date-wheel for the year and for the monthonefor each of said bearings a'dapted to be turned thereon independently of each other, and a shaft passing through the center of said bearings, and having a day-date wheel fixed thereon between the first-named two date-wheels, and adapted to be rotated by a button on said shaft outside the frame independently of the first-named two date-wheels, substantially as described and shown.

2. In combination, the frame D, having the bearings i i thereon integral therewith, the date-wheels w w", fitted to turn on said bearings, and a date-wheel located between said wheels 10 w, and rotatable from outside the frame independently of the last-named wheels by means substantial] y as described, all as set forth.

' WILLARD w. sAwYnn.

JOHN H. GOULD.

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W. E. HOLT, .T. D. GARFIELD. 

